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NORTH CAROLINA NAACP TO MEET OCT .12-15VEP Urges Heavy BlackVoter Registrat

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ATLANTA, Ga. Duringa recent three-day whirlwindtour of North Carolina, repre-sentatives of the Atlanta-basedVoter Education Project, Inc.(VEP) urged thousands ofblacks - student and non-stu-dent, urban and rural - toview voter registration as anextension of the civil rightsmovement of the 1960'5.

VEP Executive DirectorJohn Lewis and Georgia StateRep. Julian Bond told capa-city crowds at black collegesand universities, trade schools,high schools, city halls, andchurches throughout the statedrive to "organize the unor-ganized and register the un-registered."

The tour, coordinated byJohn Edwards, director of theNorth Carolina VEP in Dur-ham, included stops in Char-lotte, Greensboro, Raleigh,Windsor, Roper, RockyMount, Durham, and Danville,Va.. with side trips throughWashington, Chowan, Perqui-mans and Martin counties.

Citing the fact that NorthCarolina, with only 55.4 per-cent of its black voting agepopulation registered, has thelowest percentage of blackregistration of any of the

eleven southern states, Lewisrepeatedly told audiences"there is much need for im-provement in this state."

The tour kicked off onSeptember 10 with a rally onthe campus of Johnson C.Smith University in Charlotte.Lewis told the students thathe has often been called an"outside agitator" because ofhis civil rights activities.

"But, he said, "there isnothing wrong with agitatingif you are agitating for theright reasons."

The former national chair-man of the Studeht Non-violent Coordinating Com-mittee (SNCC) said the "agi-tator" label was placed onhim and other members of

SNCC as they traveled aboutthe South in the 1960's tryingto break down the barriers ofracial discrimination.

He said that blacks mustnow use the ballot to "lirnthis country around in 1972or we will be forced to turnit upside down in 1973."

Lewis and Bond were pre-sented with keys to the cityby Charlotte Mayor Pro TemFred Alexander.

Lewis, who was jailed 40times between 1960 and 1966during the height of the civilrights movement, told studentsat North Carolina Central Uni-veraty in Durham to "use thevote to create a new kind ofpolitics.

"We need an army of cou-rageous young people to re-gister 350,000 black voters,"Lewis said.

He described rural areaswhere "black people are livingin a sea of poverty. Thiscountry can spend billions ofdollars to place men on themoon, but it can't spend afew dollars to place the chil-dren of God on their feet athome.

"And while 'millions' areallocated to the University ofNorth Carolina, 'peanuts' areoffered to NCCU," Lewis add-ed.

Bond called on studentsthroughout the state to reject"negative definitions" of poli-tics such as "the art of thepossible and the art of com-promise."

He suggested that theyadopt a new definition ofpolitics - "the art of seeingwho gets how much of whatfrom whom. We are the who,who haven't gotten much ofanything from you-know-who," the Georgia legislatorsaid.

Bond gave the studentsdramatic accounts of the civilrights movement in the South,which began in North Caro-

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The 29th Annual Conven-tion of the North CarolinaState Conference of Branches,National Association for theAdvancement of Colored Peo-ple will convene in this citybeginning Thursday, October12th, with a Pre-ConventionMinisters & Church WorkCommittee Meeting under thedirection of Rev. J. T. Mc-Millan, Chairman, N. C. NAA-CP Church Work Committeeand President of the Winston-Salem, N. C. NAACP Branch.Special events of the Thursdaymeeting will be an addressdelivered by Rev. Matthew D.MoCollom, President of theSouth Carolina State Confe-rence NAACP Branches andPastor of Wesley United Meth-odist Church in Charleston,S. C., at the Ministers and

Church Work Committee Lun-cheon. The Thursday activi-ties will end on Thursday even-ing with an address by Rev.William C. Ardrey, Presidentof the Detroit NAACP Branchand Pastor of the St. PaulAME Zion Church in Detroit,Mich.

Fund Raising.Additional feature* on Fri-

day afternoon will be a d»-cussaon of Food and Nutrition?U. S. Department Agricul-

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COPENHAGEN: RECENTLYreleased U. S. POW trio meetspress on arrival at KastrupAirport here Sept. 28 enroute to New York. Navy

Lt. (J.G.) Norris Charles (left)of San Diego, Calif., toldnewsmen, "My belief is if thewar is ended, the other priso-ners of war will be released

Navy Lt. (J.G.) Mark Gartley(right) of Dunedin, Fla., andAii Force Maj. Edward Eliasof Valdosta, Ga (UPI)

Wheeler Appointed ToABA National

I A&T Gets Diplomat |The Theme of the Conven-

tion is "Facing the Challengeof a New Political Era." TheConvention Headquarters willbe in the Durham Hotel &

Motel. All Business Sessions

GREENSBORO - A&TState University has been se-lected by the Agency for In-ternational Development(AID) to participate in a uni-que Diplomat -in-Residenceprogram, designed to give re-turning Foreign Service offi-cers interaction with facultyand students.

The first diplomat to beassigned to A&T is Dr. WilliamE. Reed, former dean of theuniversity's School of Agri-culture. He recently returnedto the United States after

spending 11 years in AID pro-grams in Africa.

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DR.REEDabout our involvement in thisnew cooperative venture withthe Agency for InternationalDevelopment," said Dr. LewisC. Dowdy, chancellor of A&T."Putting our students and fa-culty members in direct con-

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vice officers will add immea-surably to their total educa-tional development."

The Diplomat-in-ResidenceProgram, administered by theForeign Service Institute, wasfirst initiated in 1964 at theUniveraty of California, theUniveraty of lowa and theUniversity of Wasington.

Reed will spend a full yearat A&T and develop his ownprogram, including some tea-

ching and seminars with fa-culty and students.

"We are supposed to serveas resource persons, providinginformation and expertise inforeign assistance programsand the training of foreign'national in the United States,"said Reed. "We shall alsopssist in upgrading of A&T'sprograms in these areas."

Reed served as regional di-rector for AID in Nigeria,deputy mission director forEthiopia and mission director

in Togo.A native of Columbia, La.,

he holds the Ph.D. degree insoil chemistry from CornellUniversity. He is the firstscientist to make a soil surveyof Liberia.

Reed came to A&T fromthe State Department in 1949and served as dean of theSchool of Agriculture until hisdeparture for Africa in 1961.

He is married to the formerMattye Scott of Baton Rouge,La. The Reeds have three

children.

WASHINGTON?John H.Wheeler, President of Mechan- »ics and Farmers in Durhamhas been appointed to a po-sition of national leadershipin the banking industry.

Wheeler was appointed tothe Urban and CommunityAffairs Committee of TheAmerican Bankers Asociationby ABA President-elect Eu-gene H. Adams.

The ABA is the nationalassociation of the bankingindustry. Its membership to-tals some 13,000 commercial

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The committee is concern-ed with improving the econo-mic condition of our nation'surban areas. While the com-mittee acts as a "clearing

house" to disseminate infor-mation, it also has initiatedsuch programs as Mnbanc, anindustry-supported investment icompany to provide capital tominority-owned banks; a five-year $1 billion minority lend-ing goal; black campus recruit-ing; and "key city" viats to

assist communications be-

tween black and white bua-ress sectors.

Women's PeaceLeague UrgesAction Programs

Sixty-one delegates fromnine states and Washington,DC. gathered for the first Bi-ennial Southeastern RegionalConference of the Women'sInternational League for Peaceand Freedom at Chapel Hilland Durham on September 29to October 1. Hosted by theDurham-Chapel Hill branch ofthe WILPF, the delegates par-ticipated in two workshops an-alyzing the economic issuesunderlying the struggle to ach-ieve peace and freedom, bothnationally and internationally.Two resolutions calling for ac-tion programs were passed bythe southeast regional confere-

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will be held at ConventionHeadquarters. The Thursdayevening meeting will be heldat the Saint Mark AME ZionChurch on So. Roxboro St.,the Rev. L. A. Miller is thepastor.

The President, Kelly M.Alexander, Sr., of Charlotte,N. C. will deliver hiß annualaddress to the Convention at10:00 a.m. Friday morning.

Gloster B. Current, Direc-tor, Branches & Field Admini-stration of New York Citywill deliver the Keynote Ad-dress of the Convention at theDurham Hotel and Motel, Fri-day evening, 8:00 p.m., Oct.13th.

The afternoon session onFriday focus attention on In-ternal Affairs of the organi-zation featuring NationalNAACP Staff members. Mrs.Ruby Hurley, director, South-east Region, NAACP, Atlanta,Ga., will discuss the Relation-ship of the Regional Officeto Branches and State Con-ferences; Miss Althea T. L.Simmons, director, NAACPTraining Programs, of NewYork City, will direct a Lead-ership Development & BranchProblem Clinic; Julius E.Williams, director, NAACPVeterans Programs, will pro-ject an in depth analy9s asto the returning veteran prob-lems and how to solve them;

Charles McCean, N. C. Field

Director NAACP, will discussMembership Techniques and

DistinguishedScholar Gets Locke

BALTIMORE, Md. - Dr.Nick Aaron Ford, the notedBlack Studies and English pro-fessor, has been appointed asthe Alain Locke Professor ofBlack Studies for the 1972-73academic year at Morgan StateCollege.

His appointment to thedistinguished professorship,named in honor of the lateHoward University professor,a pioneer of Negro literatureand art, was announced bythe College's Vice-Presidentfor Academic Affairs, Dr. Ro-ger K. Williams. In makingthe announcement of Dr. Ford,a faculty member at MorganState for twenty six years,as the Locke Professor ofBlack Studies, Dr. Williamspraised Ford for his continu-ing role in the developmentof the humanities at MorganState.

Dr. Ford, who was chair-man of the Morgan State de-partment of English for twen-ty-three years before his re-tirement from that post a yearago, has been on leave for thepast two years completing anevaluative study of Black Stu-

dies programs in American col-

leges and universities. His re-search studies were fundedunder a grant from the Na-tional Endowment for the Hu-manities.

According to Dr. Ford,Locke, as no other Blackscholar, exemplified the true

ideas of humanistic teachingand learning. In his forth-coming book, BLACK STU-DIES: THREAT OR CHAL-LENGE?, Dr. Ford says ofLocke: . . His efforts stimu-lated the Harlem Renaissanceand opened new opportuni-ties for young black creativewriters, artists and perfor-mers. .

The new professorial chairis named for the late Dr.Locke, recognized as a land-mark scholar in Black litera-ture and culture. He was aprofessor of philosophy at Ho-ward University from 1912-53.

His treatise on Black Stu-dies will provide opportunityfor colleges and universitiesto compare and contrast theirprograms in this area withother programs. Institutionsin the process of formulatingplans for such programs willbe offered a wide variety ofmodels for consideration.

Dr. Fonl, who is the cur-rent president of the MiddleAtlantic Region of the CollegeEnglish Association, said, "Tobe appointed by Morgan State... to a new professorshipcreated to honor such an illus-trious name as Alain Lockeis indeed an important eventin my career."

The author and-or editorof eight books, Dr. Ford is agraduate of Benedict (S.C.)College, holds the M.A. andPh.D. degrees from the State

Univerdty of lowa. He ismarried to Mrs. Ola Mae Ford,an assistant professor on theMorgan State English faculty.

James RogersDurham Housing Authority

Durham's outstanding andnational teacher of the year,James "Jay" Rogers has beennamed to the Durham HousingAuthority's Board of Commis-sioners. He will replace E.W.Midgette, Burton School prin-cipal, whose term expired Sep-tember 30.

Rogers, a history teacher atDurham High School, lias been

accorded many honors sincehis election as National Teach-er of the year 1972. In addi-tion, he has travelled exten-sively, representing North Car-olina, speaking to many groupsin all sections of the country,as well as serving as a judge inmany national, sectional and-area events.

A Durham native, he is theson of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Ro-gers and attended Pearson E-lementary, Whitted JuniorHigh and was graduated fromHillside High School in 1958.His B.A. degree in History wasearned at North Carolin:: Cen-tral University. After a twoyear stint in the Air Force,Rogers underwent a programwith the Community Action

Technicians Training Area. Ro-gers then served 3'A years asDeputy Director of the Neigh-borhood Youth Corps for Wat-auga, Avery, Mitchell and Yan-cey Counties. Such work in-creased his interest in helpingthe youth of the community.

The continued interest inthe growth and developmentof young people led him tofurther pursue these interestsby enrolling in the graduateschool at Appalachian StateUniversity at Boon, N. C.

The M.A. degree in Historywas awarded to Rogers in 19-70. September, 1970 foundhim at Durham High Schoolwhere he began teaching U.S.

i History and developing a Black] Studies Course. His continuedefforts at working to betterrelations between all studentswon for him the honor for be-

| ing selected as Durham's NorthCarolina's and nationally theyouths both black and white

Roger's name was the onlyI one submitted by A.C. Pled-

ger, who served as chairman ofthe nominating committer.

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N.C. DemocraticWomen ToHold Convention

The twelfth Annual Con-vention of N.C. Democraticwomen will be held Fridayand Saturday, October 6 and7th at the Durham Hotel-Mo-tel.

Many exciting and interest-ing activities have been plan-ned around the theme "To-gether: Old and New in 72".Each part of the program isdesigned to bring Democratstogether in a united front todeal effectively with the cam-paign tasks ahead in order toassure victory in November forall Democratic candidates.

Mrs. Arthur J. Goldbergwill be the Luncheon Speakeron Friday. She is the wife offormer Secretary of Labor,Arthur J. Goldberg and also

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CHARLESTON: W. VA.:The Rev. Ralph Abernathy,president of the Southern

Chrktian Leadership Conferer.ce, fifth from left, first row,led a protest march Monday

night by striking dty garbagecollectors against the city

admin fart ration for failu* torecognize their union. (UPI)

OCTOBER 7 - YOUR LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER TO VOTE

Clue Car|pb Ciin£oDURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 7,1972